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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

Socrates

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Bad Breathe Insight Wisdom
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Deep Eat Funny Live One Liner
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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Amateur Beautiful Body Capable Exercise Fitness Grow Inspirational Man Old Physical Strength Traning
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
Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Couple Deep Discuss Relationship Speak
It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Persist
To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Bad Character Express Fault Harm Language Oneself Soul
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Debate Failure Loser Lost Slander
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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Improvement Labor Men Writing Yourself
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Agriculture Ignorant Man Problem Wheat
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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Cheer Death Evil Goodness Happen Man Truth
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Goodness Inspirational Life One Liner Value
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Death Fear Gentlemen Oneself Thinking Wise
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Contentment Depart Equality Misfortune
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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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Comfortable Enjoyment Life Peace

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