We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
SOCRATESUnderstanding a question is half an answer.
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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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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.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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