The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
SOCRATESUnderstanding a question is half an answer.
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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 secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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To be is to do.
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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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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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