Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
SOCRATESIf you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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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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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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