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Socrates Quote - Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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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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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 unexamined life is not worth living.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Beware Busy Life One Liner
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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 misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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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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