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.
SOCRATESI know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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To be is to do.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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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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