Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SOCRATESThe greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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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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To be is to do.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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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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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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