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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Socrates

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Achievement Desire Dreamss Heart Life Tragedy
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Education Flame Kindness Learning Vessel
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Blessing Divine Gift Greatness Inspirational Madness Man Truth
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Blessing Death Evil Fear Greatness Knowledge Man
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Alter Change Death Freedom Law Life Mind Obligation Pain Pretend Reality Trouble
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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Improvement Labor Men Writing Yourself
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Goodness Inspirational Life One Liner Value
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Evil Good Ignorance Knowledge
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Ashamed Care Fame Improvement Money Prestige Soul Truth Wisdom
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Beware Busy Life One Liner
To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Ourself
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Constant Fall Friendship
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Content Minimalism Nature Rich Wealth
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Admire Beautiful City Community Greatness Planning Wisdom
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Death Fear Gentlemen Oneself Thinking Wise

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

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