The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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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.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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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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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 beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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