Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
SOCRATESThe highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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