To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
SOCRATESLiving well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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