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.
SOCRATESBy all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by 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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