It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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To be is to do.
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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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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 should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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