Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESBe 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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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 secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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True 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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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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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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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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