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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

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Contentment Depart Equality Misfortune
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Character One Liner Pride Vanity
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Goodness Inspirational Saddle Struggle Tame
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Fight Justice Man Private Public Survive Time
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Forgiveness Insult Man Respect Return Treat Wrong
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Angry Character Disappointment Hurt Respect
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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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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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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