The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
SOCRATESBy far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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To be is to do.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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