Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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 secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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 come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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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 greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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To be is to do.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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