Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
SOCRATESAll men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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