We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
SOCRATESThe great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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