The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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