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Socrates Quote - Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

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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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Authority Bad Children Contempt Disrespect Exercise Love Luxury Manner Place
Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Character One Liner Pride Vanity
The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Evil Include Language Misuse One Liner Soul
To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Finding Freedom Healing Self Love Yourself
An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Consider Inspirational Life Live One Liner Worth
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Beginning One Liner Positive Wisdom
I 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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Comfortable Enjoyment Life Peace
The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be Yourself Greatness Honour Live Pretend
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Blessing Death Evil Fear Greatness Knowledge Man
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Alone Beast God Healing Himself Self Love Society Sufficient
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Death Excellence Goodness Individual Men Wealth
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Adversity Depression Human Prosperity Remember Stable
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
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Bad Breathe Insight Wisdom
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Education Flame Kindness Learning Vessel
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Evil Greatness Hate Reason Suffering
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Goodness Inspirational Life One Liner Value
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Blessing Divine Gift Greatness Inspirational Madness Man Truth
Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Deep Healing Love Need One Liner
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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Alter Change Death Freedom Law Life Mind Obligation Pain Pretend Reality Trouble
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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Death Fear Gentlemen Oneself Thinking Wise
The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Truth Wisdom Worth
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Constant Fall Friendship
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Capacity Development-q Enjoyment Finding Happiness Secret Seek
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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Beautiful Divine Doubt God Human Indicate Man Poem Poet Work
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Deep Eat Funny Live One Liner
There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Confidence Inspirational One Liner Problem Seek Solution Trouble

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