There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
SOCRATESIntelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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