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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More Socrates Quotes
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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