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.
SOCRATESBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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 secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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To be is to do.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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