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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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 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 true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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