To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
SOCRATESHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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