If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
SOCRATESHe 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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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