Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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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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