The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
SOCRATESLiving well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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