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The 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.

Socrates

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Knowledge Wealth
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Artificial Contentment Deep Luxury Natural Poverty Wealth
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Envy One Liner Soul
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Dead Deep Desire Hate Inspirational One Liner
To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Ourself
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Evil Good Ignorance Knowledge
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Death Excellence Goodness Individual Men Wealth
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Bad Breathe Insight Wisdom
I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Comfortable Enjoyment Life Peace
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Couple Deep Discuss Relationship Speak
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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Ashamed Care Fame Improvement Money Prestige Soul Truth Wisdom
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Forever Greedy Human Nature Suffering
It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Avoid Death Difficult Ignorance Run Wicked
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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