Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
SOCRATESRemember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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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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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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