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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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Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
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One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.
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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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If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
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How many things are there which I do not want.
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You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.
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One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.
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Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
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Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
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