Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
SOCRATESWonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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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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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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