From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
SOCRATESI know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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