All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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 unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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