From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
SOCRATESUnderstanding a question is half an answer.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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