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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Achievement Desire Dreamss Heart Life Tragedy
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Bad Breathe Insight Wisdom
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Death Excellence Goodness Individual Men Wealth
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Change Determination Himself Improvement One Liner World
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Forgiveness Insult Man Respect Return Treat Wrong
Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Character One Liner Pride Vanity
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Education Flame Kindness Learning Vessel
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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Blessing Death Evil Fear Greatness Knowledge Man
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Constant Fall Friendship
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Break Care Leaving Loyal People Walk
I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Believe Excellence Human Intelligence Oneself
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Character Improvement One Liner Seek
True 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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Life Ourself Realize Understand Wisdom World
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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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Contentment Greedy Satisfaction
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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Believe God Religion

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