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The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.
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I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
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It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
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He is the richest who is content with the least.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Contentment is natural wealth.
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If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason.
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Athletics have become professionalized.
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An unexamined life is a life of no account.
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If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.
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An honest man is always a child.
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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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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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My divine sign indicates the future to me.
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The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.
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The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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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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