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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.

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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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Contentment Depart Equality Misfortune
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Knowledge One Liner True Wisdom
The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Alone Champion Himself Intend Justice Leaving Life Necesaary Politics Survive True
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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Cheer Death Evil Goodness Happen Man Truth
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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be Yourself Greatness Honour Live Pretend
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Alter Change Death Freedom Law Life Mind Obligation Pain Pretend Reality Trouble
Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Beware Busy Life One Liner
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Beautiful Inspirational Live One Liner
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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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