Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
SOCRATESIs it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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 greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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