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"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."
"The more I know, the more I know that I don't know."
"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."
"Happiness is unrepented pleasure."
"I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding."
"And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes."
"To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly"
"It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit."
"Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers."
"In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep."
"If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease."
"Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue."
"The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily."
"Wisdom is knowing how little we know."
"I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know."
"Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of."
"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?"
"The more I learn, the less I realize I know."
"Let the questions be the curriculum."
"My belief is that to have no wants is divine."