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An honest man is always a child.

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

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Let him that would move the world first move himself.

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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

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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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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: Unknown

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