"Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth."
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"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us."
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"The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles."
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"The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known."
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"Be as you wish to seem."
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"There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate."
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"I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler."
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"Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know."
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"The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows."
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"Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom."
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"The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person."
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"An honest man is always a child."
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"All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth"
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"She soars on her own wings."
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"Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself."
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"One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him."
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"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
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"Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?"
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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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"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."
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