"Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge"
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"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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"He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world."
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"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing."
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"How many things I can do without!"
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"The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion."
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"Contentment is natural wealth."
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"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
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"I am very conscious that I am not wise at all."
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"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
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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 . . ."
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"When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success."
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"This is a universe that does not favor the timid."
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"Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change."
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"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."
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"Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure."
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"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."
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"He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance."
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"Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?"
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"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."
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