Every action has its pleasures and its price.
SOCRATESNobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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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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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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