The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
SOCRATESThrough your rags I see your vanity.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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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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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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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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