The hottest love has the coldest end.
SOCRATESNobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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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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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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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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 know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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