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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More Socrates Quotes
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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