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.
SOCRATESThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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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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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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