The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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