Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SOCRATESAll men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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I 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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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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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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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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 unexamined life is not worth living.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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