If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
More Socrates Quotes
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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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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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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