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.
SOCRATESA man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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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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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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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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