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.
SOCRATESWealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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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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No 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.
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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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To be is to do.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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