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.
SOCRATESWhen you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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