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Plato
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse
condition than those who have none, or very slight ones
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate
nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be
insufficiently or ill-educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
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Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are
afraid of the light.
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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You cannot conceive the many without the one.
Socrates
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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a
philosopher.
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
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If a man would move the world, he must first move himself.
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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
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