The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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