Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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