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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Persist
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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Ashamed Care Fame Improvement Money Prestige Soul Truth Wisdom
A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Fight Justice Man Private Public Survive Time
Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Couple Deep Discuss Relationship Speak
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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Goodness Inspirational Saddle Struggle Tame
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Average Discuss Ideas Judgement Mind People Strong
The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Truth Wisdom Worth
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Blessing Death Greatness Human One Liner
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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Die Except God Hour
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Knowledge Philosophy Teaching Thinking
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Equality Man Superior Woman Women Empowerment
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Confidence Man Marriage Sex Virgin
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Agriculture Ignorant Man Problem Wheat
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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Hate Hatred Proof Simplicity Speak Speech Truth
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Forever Greedy Human Nature Suffering
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Beautiful Man Peace Soul

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