I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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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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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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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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The 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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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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