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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.

Socrates

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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 secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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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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 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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Alone Champion Himself Intend Justice Leaving Life Necesaary Politics Survive True
There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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
Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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Contentment Greedy Satisfaction
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Death Fear Gentlemen Oneself Thinking Wise
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Except FAction Ignorance Learning One Liner
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Knowledge Wealth
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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