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.

Socrates
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  1. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
  2. Know thyself.
  3. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
  4. The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
  5. The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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