Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
SOCRATESThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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