The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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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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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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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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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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