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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

Socrates

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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Account Evil Himself Injured Injustice Journey Man Return Suffering
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
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Average Discuss Ideas Judgement Mind People Strong
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Beware Busy Life One Liner
The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Enjoyment Life Live Principle
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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Blessing Death Evil Fear Greatness Knowledge Man
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Attain Compassion Empire Impossible Kingdom Reach Understand
To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Bad Character Express Fault Harm Language Oneself Soul
The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Break Up Cold Deep Ending Hot Love One Liner
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Constant Fall Friendship
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Achievement Desire Dreamss Heart Life Tragedy
It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Persist
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Contentment Greedy Satisfaction
I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Believe Excellence Human Intelligence Oneself
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Beautiful Inspirational Live One Liner
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Beast Dreamss Goodness Law Men Nature Sleep Wild

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

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