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There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.
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Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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.
Socrates
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The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
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Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
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True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
Socrates
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Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
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In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Contentment is natural wealth.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.
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The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
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Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.
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Pride divides the men, humility joins them.
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In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.
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Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
Socrates
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
Socrates
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How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.
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