Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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 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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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