From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
SOCRATESIn all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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