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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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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To be is to do.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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