Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
More Socrates Quotes
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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No 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.
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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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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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 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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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