"A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true."
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"My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves"
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"Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty."
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"To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity."
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"When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it."
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"Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self."
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"There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence."
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"It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half"
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"An unexamined life is a life of no account."
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"The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live."
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"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all."
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"We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us."
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"People learn more on their own rather than being force fed."
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"To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil."
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"All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that."
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"Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation."
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"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant."
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"There is no learning without remembering."
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"To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images."
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"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."
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