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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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To be is to do.
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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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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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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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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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