Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
SOCRATESRemember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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 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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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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