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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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He is richest who is content with the least.
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When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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I 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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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A man who knows he knows nothing is smarter than a man who thinks he knows something but really knows nothing.
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But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.
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I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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