The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
SOCRATESTrue 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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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