I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. - Socrates

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I'm giving good advice everyday however I can help. People will hit me up and ask me all types of questions. I really don't know too much except what I've gone through, but whatever knowledge I have, I try and give.

Socrates

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

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People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

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The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

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Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be. . . those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes. . . those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

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Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

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The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.

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