Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
SOCRATESThe true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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