Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
SOCRATESIf 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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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 answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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