The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESNo 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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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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