Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESPrefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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