The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESThrough your rags I see your vanity.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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