In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
SOCRATESI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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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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