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Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Socrates

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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Forever Greedy Human Nature Suffering
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Knowledge One Liner True Wisdom
There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Confidence Inspirational One Liner Problem Seek Solution Trouble
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Equality Man Superior Woman Women Empowerment
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.
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Contentment Depart Equality Misfortune
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Constant Fall Friendship
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Improvement Labor Men Writing Yourself
Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Deep Inspirational Knowledge Success
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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Bad Funny Goodness Happiness Marriage Philosophy Wife
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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Alter Change Death Freedom Law Life Mind Obligation Pain Pretend Reality Trouble
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Capacity Development-q Enjoyment Finding Happiness Secret Seek
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Bad Breathe Insight Wisdom
To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Ourself
The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Enjoyment Life Live Principle
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Character Improvement One Liner Seek
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.

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