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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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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, 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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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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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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Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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The unexamined life is not worth living for man.
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