From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
SOCRATESIntelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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To be is to do.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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