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.
SOCRATESNow the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
More Socrates Quotes
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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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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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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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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 greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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To be is to do.
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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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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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