Socrates
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
""Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."
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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
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