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.
SOCRATESDo not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
More Socrates Quotes
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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