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.
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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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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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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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