Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
SOCRATESTrue wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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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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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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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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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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