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I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.
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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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I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.
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Be true to thine own self.
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Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
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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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No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul and may the outward and the inward man be one.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul and may the outward and inward may be one.
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If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.
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The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.
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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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All things in moderation, including moderation.
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The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.
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If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.
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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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Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
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The greatest flood has the soonest ebb the sorest tempest the most sudden calm the hottest love the coldest end and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.
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To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
Socrates
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
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