Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
SOCRATESThe only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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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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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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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 misuse of language induces evil in 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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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