As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
SOCRATESBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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To be is to do.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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 unexamined life is not worth living.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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