Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
SOCRATESThe really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
More Socrates Quotes
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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To be is to do.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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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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