The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
SOCRATESBe 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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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