Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SOCRATESLife contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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To be is to do.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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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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