The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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