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.
SOCRATESI know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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