Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
SOCRATESLife contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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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 really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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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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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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