Through your rags I see your vanity.
SOCRATESThe secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
More Socrates Quotes
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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