Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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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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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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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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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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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 easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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