Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
SOCRATESBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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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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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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