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“ "He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius“I would not have him sorrow at my hard lot, or say at the burial, Thus we lay out Socrates, or, Thus we follow him to the grave or bury him; for false words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Be of good cheer then, my good Crito, and say that you are burying my body only, and do with that as is usual, and as you think best.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable.”
Gorgias • Plato“The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.”
Book II • Marcus Aurelius“We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.”
Self-Analysis • Karen Horney