Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
SOCRATESContentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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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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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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