"The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper."
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"I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes."
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"Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told."
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"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."
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"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."
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"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."
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"Virtue is the beauty of the soul."
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"Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?"
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"How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him."
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"What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right."
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"For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."
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"The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not."
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"One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them."
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"If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded."
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"God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on."
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"In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever."
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"It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one"
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"Go wherever the facts lead."
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"Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
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"It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself."
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