Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
SOCRATESTo express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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