It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
SOCRATESThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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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 greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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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 beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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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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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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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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