"True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge."
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"No one does wrong voluntarily."
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"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous."
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"I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know."
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"Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what you do, even if you don't think so at present. But if you neglect yourselves and are unwilling to live, as though following tracks, in accordance with what we now say and have said in the past too, then no matter how much or how seriously you agree with me at present you will accomplish next to nothing."
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"Every action has its pleasures and its price."
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"Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?"
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"I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul."
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"Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods."
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"Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?"
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"If you would seek health, look first to the spine."
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"If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil"
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"It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit."
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"I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead."
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"This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know."
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"By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful."
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"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent"
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"The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow."
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"The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be."
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"An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones."
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