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.
SOCRATESBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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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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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 easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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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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