The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
SOCRATESBe slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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