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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.

Socrates

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Knowledge Wealth
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Crush Improvement Wisdom Yourself
Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Blessing Goodness Individual State Wealth
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Achievement Desire Dreamss Heart Life Tragedy
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Knowledge Philosophy Teaching Thinking
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Deep Eat Funny Live One Liner
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Change Determination Himself Improvement One Liner World
The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Enjoyment Life Live Principle
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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Die Except God Hour
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Education Flame Kindness Learning Vessel
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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Condition Depression Fortune Hard Time Human Joy Misfortune Permanent Remember Sorrow
Be as you wish to seem.
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Attitude Be Yourself One Liner Self Love
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Constant Fall Friendship
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Account Evil Himself Injured Injustice Journey Man Return Suffering
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Beautiful Man Peace Soul
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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Alone Champion Himself Intend Justice Leaving Life Necesaary Politics Survive True

Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.

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