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Men of Athens, I honor and love you but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.
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Be true to thine own self.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul and may the outward and inward may be one.
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Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
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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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It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
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Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The more I learn, the less I realize I know.
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Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.
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All I know is that I do not know anything
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Fear of women love more than hate the man.
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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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If you would seek health, look first to the spine.
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I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
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The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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