Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
SOCRATESOne 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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