Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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 only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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