Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESThe 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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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