Every action has its pleasures and its price.
SOCRATESStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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To be is to do.
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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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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this 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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