The unexamined life is not worth living.
SOCRATESPrefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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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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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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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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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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