Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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To be is to do.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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