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.
SOCRATESHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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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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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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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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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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