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.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
More Socrates Quotes
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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