Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
SOCRATESThose who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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 gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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