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.
SOCRATESPrefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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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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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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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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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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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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