The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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