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.
SOCRATESNow 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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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