The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
SOCRATESThe secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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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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To be is to do.
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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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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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