There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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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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One 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.
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To be is to do.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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