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.
SOCRATESThrough your rags I see your vanity.
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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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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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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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