Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
SOCRATESLiving well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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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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