Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
SOCRATESThe secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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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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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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