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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.

Socrates

I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Believe God Religion
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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Alone Champion Himself Intend Justice Leaving Life Necesaary Politics Survive True
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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Authority Bad Children Contempt Disrespect Exercise Love Luxury Manner Place
It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Avoid Death Difficult Ignorance Run Wicked
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
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Debate Failure Loser Lost Slander
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Divine Immortal Men Peace Soul
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Deep Eat Funny Live One Liner
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
God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Beautiful Divine Doubt God Human Indicate Man Poem Poet Work
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Knowledge Philosophy Teaching Thinking
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Beast Dreamss Goodness Law Men Nature Sleep Wild
Wisdom begins in wonder.
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One Liner Wisdom Wonder
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Arrive Death Departure Die God Life Separate
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Artificial Contentment Deep Luxury Natural Poverty Wealth
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom

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