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To find yourself, think for yourself.

Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Improvement Labor Men Writing Yourself
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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Authority Bad Children Contempt Disrespect Exercise Love Luxury Manner Place
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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Ashamed Care Fame Improvement Money Prestige Soul Truth Wisdom
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Evil Greatness Hate Reason Suffering
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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Avoid Death Difficult Ignorance Run Wicked
Be 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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Cheer Death Evil Goodness Happen Man Truth
I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Believe God Religion
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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Bad Funny Goodness Happiness Marriage Philosophy Wife
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Divine Immortal Men Peace Soul
The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Advantage Attitude Be Yourself Myself Self Love
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Goodness Inspirational Life One Liner Value
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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Contentment Depart Equality Misfortune
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Death Excellence Goodness Individual Men Wealth
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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Account Evil Himself Injured Injustice Journey Man Return Suffering
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Battle Fight Kindness Meet Philosophy Struggle
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Bad Breathe Insight Wisdom

To find yourself, think for yourself.

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