All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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