Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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