Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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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.
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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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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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