Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
SOCRATESEverything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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To be is to do.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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