From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
SOCRATESFrom the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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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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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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