Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
SOCRATESIf 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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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To be is to do.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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 hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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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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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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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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