Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
SOCRATESEmploy 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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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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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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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