Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESI know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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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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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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