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.
SOCRATESBe as you wish to seem.
More Socrates Quotes
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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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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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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