Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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.
More Socrates Quotes
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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.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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