Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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 really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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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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 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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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To be is to do.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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