Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
SOCRATESThe secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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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 highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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