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.
SOCRATESThere is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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