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?
SOCRATESEmploy 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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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 about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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