QUOTES by Socrates
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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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“The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.”
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“The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.”
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“There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.” -Socrates
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“The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.”
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“Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.”
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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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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“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
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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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“If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.”
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“Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.” -Socrates
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“Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”
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“Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.”
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“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.”
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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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“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
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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. 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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“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
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“The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.”
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“Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.”
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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
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“Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.”
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“Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?”
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“Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.”
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