Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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