The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESI know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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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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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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