I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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