The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
SOCRATESTo find yourself, think for yourself.
More Socrates Quotes
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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The 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.
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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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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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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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