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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Break Care Leaving Loyal People Walk
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Alter Change Death Freedom Law Life Mind Obligation Pain Pretend Reality Trouble
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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Improvement Labor Men Writing Yourself
To be is to do.
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Gym Husstle Inspirational One Liner Possitive
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Beautiful Man Peace Soul
Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Deep Healing Love Need One Liner
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Knowledge Wealth
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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Arrive Death Departure Die God Life Separate
No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Amateur Beautiful Body Capable Exercise Fitness Grow Inspirational Man Old Physical Strength Traning
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Character Improvement One Liner Seek
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Content Minimalism Nature Rich Wealth
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Blessing Death Evil Fear Greatness Knowledge Man
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?
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Ashamed Care Fame Improvement Money Prestige Soul Truth Wisdom
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Crush Improvement Wisdom Yourself
Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Blessing Goodness Individual State Wealth

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