Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
SOCRATESWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
More Socrates Quotes
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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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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