Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
SOCRATESBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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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 highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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