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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Socrates

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Blessing Death Evil Fear Greatness Knowledge Man
The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Break Up Cold Deep Ending Hot Love One Liner
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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Ashamed Care Fame Improvement Money Prestige Soul Truth Wisdom
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Break Care Leaving Loyal People Walk
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Knowledge One Liner True Wisdom
Be as you wish to seem.
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Attitude Be Yourself One Liner Self Love
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Confidence Man Marriage Sex Virgin
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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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Content Minimalism Nature Rich Wealth
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Contentment Depart Equality Misfortune
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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Improvement Inspirational Labor Men Time Writing Yourself
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Improvement Labor Men Writing Yourself
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Average Discuss Ideas Judgement Mind People Strong
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Knowledge Wealth
It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Persist
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Except FAction Ignorance Learning One Liner

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

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