Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
SOCRATESLife contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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