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Socrates Quote - Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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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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By 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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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