Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
SOCRATESStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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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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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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