Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESTrue wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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