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1. The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

2. What I do not know, I do not claim to know.

3. It is worse to do injustice than to suffer it.

4. No one errs willingly.

5. Justice is doing one's own work and not meddling in others'.

6. Love is the desire for the perpetual possession of the good.

7. Let us not become haters of argument — that is a great danger to the soul.

8. Extreme freedom seems to change into nothing but extreme slavery.

9. It is through wonder that people both now begin and first began to philosophize.

10. The human good is activity of soul in accordance with virtue.

11. Virtues arise in us neither by nature nor contrary to nature; we are fitted by nature to receive them, and are brought to completion by habit.

12. Virtue is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean relative to us.

13. Man is by nature a political animal.

14. A friend is another self.

15. Upon those who step into the same rivers, different and different waters flow.

16. A person's character is their destiny.

17. What is opposed brings together; from what differs comes the finest harmony.

18. I searched for myself.

19. Death is nothing to us: for what has been dissolved has no sensation, and what has no sensation is nothing to us.

20. Pleasure is the beginning and end of the happy life — not the pleasures of profligates, but freedom from pain in the body and from disturbance in the soul.

21. Of all that wisdom provides for the happiness of a whole life, by far the greatest is the possession of friendship.

22. Of things, some are in our power, and some are not.

23. It is not things that disturb people, but their judgments about things.

24. With whatever delights you, remind yourself of its nature — then if it is lost, you will not be disturbed.