Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
SOCRATESIf 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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 easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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 great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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