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.
SOCRATESThose who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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