Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESThe answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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