My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
SOCRATESLiving well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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