I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.Socrates
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
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Let him that would move the world first move himself.
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Man, know thyself.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul
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