From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
SOCRATESEnvy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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