I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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 great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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