The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice And experience of them.
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Eat to live, not live to eat.Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
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And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
Socrates
Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
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