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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Socrates

It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Avoid Death Difficult Ignorance Run Wicked
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Deep Eat Funny Live One Liner
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
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
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Death Fear Gentlemen Oneself Thinking Wise
It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Persist
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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Alone Champion Himself Intend Justice Leaving Life Necesaary Politics Survive True
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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Beautiful Divine Doubt God Human Indicate Man Poem Poet Work
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
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Adversity Depression Human Prosperity Remember Stable
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Evil Greatness Hate Reason Suffering
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Beast Dreamss Goodness Law Men Nature Sleep Wild
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Crush Improvement Wisdom Yourself
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
Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Couple Deep Discuss Relationship Speak
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

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