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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

Socrates

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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Forever Greedy Human Nature Suffering
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom
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.
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Contentment Depart Equality Misfortune
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Confidence Man Marriage Sex Virgin
Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Deep Healing Love Need One Liner
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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Life Ourself Realize Understand Wisdom World
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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Comfortable Enjoyment Life Peace
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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Improvement Inspirational Labor Men Time Writing Yourself
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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Hate Hatred Proof Simplicity Speak Speech Truth
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Knowledge Wealth
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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Alter Change Death Freedom Law Life Mind Obligation Pain Pretend Reality Trouble
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Knowledge One Liner True Wisdom
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Education Flame Kindness Learning Vessel
The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Advantage Attitude Be Yourself Myself Self Love
To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Finding Freedom Healing Self Love Yourself
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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Avoid Death Difficult Ignorance Run Wicked

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