Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
SOCRATESThou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
More Socrates Quotes
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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