Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
SOCRATESIn all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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