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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Life and Living
Socrates

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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
Envy
Socrates

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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
Desire
Socrates

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The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Glory
Socrates

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

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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
Purpose
Socrates

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The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.
Men
Valerie Solanis

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Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
Writers and Writing
Philippe Sollers

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
Happiness
Solon

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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Government
Solon

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
Truth
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Lies and Lying
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
Responsibility
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road.
Idiots
Darryl Somers

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Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count.
Elections
Anastasio Somoza

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Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Ambition
Susan Sontag

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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
Possibilities
Susan Sontag

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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
Problems
Susan Sontag

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Truth
Susan Sontag

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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Writers and Writing
Susan Sontag

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I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news.
Uncategorised
Sophocles

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
Purpose
Sophocles

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None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
News
Sophocles

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Honesty
Sophocles

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
Success
Sophocles

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun