The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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 unexamined life is not worth living.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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 hottest love has the coldest end.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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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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