As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
SOCRATESFrom the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
More Socrates Quotes
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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