There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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If 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.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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 easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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 children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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