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An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.
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Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.
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Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.
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A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
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Born:
470 BC
Died:
399 BC
(aged 71)
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Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.
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