Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
SOCRATESThe greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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