Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
SOCRATESIt is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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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 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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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