Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
SOCRATESUnderstanding a question is half an answer.
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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