In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
SOCRATESIn all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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