Through your rags I see your vanity.
SOCRATESThe answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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