The hottest love has the coldest end.
SOCRATESOne who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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