Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
SOCRATESI 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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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