Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
SOCRATESEverything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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