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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SocratesSocrates Through your rags I see your vanity.
SocratesSocrates 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.
SocratesSocrates Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
SocratesSocrates As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
SocratesSocrates No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
SocratesSocrates If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
SocratesSocrates Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
SocratesSocrates 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.
SocratesSocrates Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
SocratesSocrates The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
SocratesSocrates If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
SocratesSocrates Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SocratesSocrates 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.
SocratesSocrates Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
SocratesSocrates Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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