The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
SOCRATESThe hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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