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.
SOCRATESMankind 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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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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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 find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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