The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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To be is to do.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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