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“ ...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly... ”

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

~ Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

~ Socrates

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

~ Socrates

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

~ Socrates