Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
SOCRATESIn all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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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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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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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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To be is to do.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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