Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
SOCRATESAll men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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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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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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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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