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Socrates Quote - Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

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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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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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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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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