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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Socrates

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
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
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
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
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Change Determination Himself Improvement One Liner World
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
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Dead Deep Desire Hate Inspirational One Liner
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
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
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
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
Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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Die Except God Hour
Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Blessing Goodness Individual State Wealth
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Beautiful Inspirational Live One Liner
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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Answer Average Experience Individual Intelligence People Stupidity
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Except FAction Ignorance Learning One Liner

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