When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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