The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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