If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
SOCRATESIt is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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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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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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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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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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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 don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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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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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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