Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SOCRATESRemember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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