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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might ha...more

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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompan...more

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["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments. Hatred of arguments and hatred of human b...more

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[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think tha...more