Every action has its pleasures and its price.
SOCRATESEnvy is the ulcer of the soul.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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