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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.

Socrates

Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Character One Liner Pride Vanity
Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Blessing Goodness Individual State Wealth
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Beginning One Liner Positive Wisdom
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Blessing Divine Gift Greatness Inspirational Madness Man Truth
Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Honesty Necessary True Truth
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Divine Immortal Men Peace Soul
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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Avoid Death Difficult Ignorance Run Wicked
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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Improvement Inspirational Labor Men Time Writing Yourself
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
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Beautiful Man Peace Soul
To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Ourself
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Knowledge Wealth
The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Break Up Cold Deep Ending Hot Love One Liner
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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Answer Average Experience Individual Intelligence People Stupidity
I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Believe God Religion
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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Forever Greedy Human Nature Suffering

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.

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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.

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