Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.Socrates
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.
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I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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Whom do I call educated First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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