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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Socrates

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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Ashamed Care Fame Improvement Money Prestige Soul Truth Wisdom
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Confidence Man Marriage Sex Virgin
Be as you wish to seem.
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Attitude Be Yourself One Liner Self Love
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Except FAction Ignorance Learning One Liner
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Bad Breathe Insight Wisdom
One 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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Account Evil Himself Injured Injustice Journey Man Return Suffering
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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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Forgiveness Insult Man Respect Return Treat Wrong
The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Advantage Attitude Be Yourself Myself Self Love
Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Fools Kindness People Philosophy Wise
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Knowledge One Liner True Wisdom
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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Authority Bad Children Contempt Disrespect Exercise Love Luxury Manner Place
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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Alone Beast God Healing Himself Self Love Society Sufficient
Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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Die Except God Hour
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Divine Immortal Men Peace Soul

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