Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
SOCRATESAre 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?
More Socrates Quotes
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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