Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
SOCRATESThou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
SOCRATESThe only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
SOCRATESBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
SOCRATESIf you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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.
SOCRATESBy far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
SOCRATESWisdom begins in wonder.
SOCRATESThe easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
SOCRATESPrefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
SOCRATESIt 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.
SOCRATESFrom the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
SOCRATESNobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
SOCRATESSometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SOCRATESMy plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
SOCRATESUnderstanding a question is half an answer.
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