Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
SOCRATESThe answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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