Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
SOCRATESThe hottest love has the coldest end.
More Socrates Quotes
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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To be is to do.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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