The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
SOCRATESI 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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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