The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESAre 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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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 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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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