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.
SOCRATESNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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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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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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