The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESMy plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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