From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
SOCRATESFrom the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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