The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
SOCRATESAs to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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