Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
SOCRATESIf 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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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 misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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