If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
SOCRATESThou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
More Socrates Quotes
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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By 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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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