One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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