Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by 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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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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