Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SOCRATESIs it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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