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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Socrates

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
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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Alter Change Death Freedom Law Life Mind Obligation Pain Pretend Reality Trouble
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Content Minimalism Nature Rich Wealth
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Authority Bad Children Contempt Disrespect Exercise Love Luxury Manner Place
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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Conception Emotional Illusion Moral Relative Sound System True Value Vulgar
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Beautiful Man Peace Soul
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Knowledge Wealth
The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be Yourself Greatness Honour Live Pretend
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Envy One Liner Soul
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Debate Failure Loser Lost Slander
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Account Evil Himself Injured Injustice Journey Man Return Suffering
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Agriculture Ignorant Man Problem Wheat
The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Enjoyment Life Live Principle
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Alone Beast God Healing Himself Self Love Society Sufficient
It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Beauty Body Careless Develop Disgrace Fitness Inspirational Limit Manner Strength
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Blessing Death Greatness Human One Liner

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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