It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
SOCRATESNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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