The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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To be is to do.
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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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