In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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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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