"Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."
-Xenophon
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"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.“
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
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