The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
SOCRATESWhen you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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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 greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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 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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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