Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
SOCRATESNo man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
More Socrates Quotes
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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 easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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