The unexamined life is not worth living.
SOCRATESThe only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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To be is to do.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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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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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 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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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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