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.
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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.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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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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