Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
SOCRATESI 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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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To be is to do.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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