Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
SOCRATESWealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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.
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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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To be is to do.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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