How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
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