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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.

Socrates

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Blessing Death Evil Fear Greatness Knowledge Man
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Contentment Depart Equality Misfortune
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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Admire Beautiful City Community Greatness Planning Wisdom
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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Alone Beast God Healing Himself Self Love Society Sufficient
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Divine Immortal Men Peace Soul
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Dead Deep Desire Hate Inspirational One Liner
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Confidence Man Marriage Sex Virgin
An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Consider Inspirational Life Live One Liner Worth
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Beautiful Man Peace Soul
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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Conception Emotional Illusion Moral Relative Sound System True Value Vulgar
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Attain Compassion Empire Impossible Kingdom Reach Understand
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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Beauty Body Careless Develop Disgrace Fitness Inspirational Limit Manner Strength
Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Deep Inspirational Knowledge Success
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Alter Change Death Freedom Law Life Mind Obligation Pain Pretend Reality Trouble
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Beginning One Liner Positive Wisdom
The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Break Up Cold Deep Ending Hot Love One Liner
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Cheer Death Evil Goodness Happen Man Truth
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Bad Funny Goodness Happiness Marriage Philosophy Wife
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Achievement Desire Dreamss Heart Life Tragedy
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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Die Except God Hour
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Death Excellence Goodness Individual Men Wealth
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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Death Fear Gentlemen Oneself Thinking Wise
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Action Inspirational One Liner Patience Pleasure Price
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Knowledge One Liner True Wisdom
Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Honesty Necessary True Truth
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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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom
God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Beautiful Divine Doubt God Human Indicate Man Poem Poet Work

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