The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESGive me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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My 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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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