Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
SOCRATESSometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
More Socrates Quotes
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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