The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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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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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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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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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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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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To be is to do.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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