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A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.
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Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it
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I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
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Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.
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The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.
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There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.
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The end of life is to be like unto God and the soul following God, will be like unto Him He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.
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I know that I know nothing.
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
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If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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No one does wrong voluntarily.
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A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
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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.
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When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.
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It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.
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My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
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