The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESI do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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