Every action has its pleasures and its price.
SOCRATESHe who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
More Socrates Quotes
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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