Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
SOCRATESMankind 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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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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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Are 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?
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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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 do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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