The hottest love has the coldest end.
SOCRATESBy all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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