An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
SOCRATESThe great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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