The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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