Be as you wish to seem.
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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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