The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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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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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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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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To be is to do.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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