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.
SOCRATESI know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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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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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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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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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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