"There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance."

Socrates on evil
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"The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor."

Socrates on envy
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"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all"

Socrates on education
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"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

Socrates on dishonesty
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"Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it."

Thales of Miletus on thoughts and thinking
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"Hope is the poor man's bread."

Thales of Miletus on hope
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"It is easy to be brave when far away from danger."

Aesop on risk
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"Slow and steady wins the race."

Aesop on patience
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"The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others."

Aesop on misfortunes
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"Please all, and you will please none."

Aesop on approval
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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop on kindness
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"Don't count your chickens before they are hatched."

Aesop on expectation
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"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

Aesop on enemies
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"It is always in season for old men to learn."

Aeschylus on learning
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"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Socrates on growth
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"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."

Socrates on knowledge
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"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

Socrates on reputation   

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle on happiness
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle on habit
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle on education
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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

Aristotle on education
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"Education is the best provision for old age."

Aristotle on education
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"Truth is its own reward."

Plato on truth
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"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself."

Plato on psychology
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"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

Plato on planning   

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."

Plato on opinions   

"States are as the men, they grow out of human characters."

Plato on nations   

"All learning has an emotional base."

Plato on learning
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"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

Plato on knowledge
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"Man is a being in search of meaning."

Plato on humankind
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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

Socrates on teacher
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"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted."

Aeschylus on advice
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