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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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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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Alone Beast God Healing Himself Self Love Society Sufficient
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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Blessing Death Evil Fear Greatness Knowledge Man
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Average Discuss Ideas Judgement Mind People Strong
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Debate Failure Loser Lost Slander
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Education Flame Kindness Learning Vessel
I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Believe Excellence Human Intelligence Oneself
Wisdom begins in wonder.
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One Liner Wisdom Wonder
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
Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Deep Healing Love Need One Liner
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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Improvement Labor Men Writing Yourself
Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Fools Kindness People Philosophy Wise
Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Couple Deep Discuss Relationship Speak
An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Consider Inspirational Life Live One Liner Worth
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Forever Greedy Human Nature Suffering
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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