Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
SOCRATESEverything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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