The hottest love has the coldest end.
SOCRATESThe really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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