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.
SOCRATESNo one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
More Socrates Quotes
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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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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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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