Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
SOCRATESIt is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
More Socrates Quotes
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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.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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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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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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