Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
More Socrates Quotes
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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