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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 contented to take their own.
Topic: Adversity
Source: None
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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An unexamined life is not worth living.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Topic: Bereavement
Source: None
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Topic: Children
Source: None
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I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
Topic: Children / Youth
Source: None
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My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher.
Topic: Cliches and One-Liners
Source: None
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If all the misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Topic: Cliches and One-Liners
Source: None
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Topic: Contentment
Source: None
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Topic: Depression
Source: None
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Topic: Dishonesty
Source: None
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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat
and drink that they may live.
Topic: Eating
Source: Plutarch's Morals--How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Topic: Faith
Source: None
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Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
Topic: Famous Last Words
Source: None
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Topic: Hatred
Source: None
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Topic: Ignorance
Source: None
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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Topic: Immortality
Source: None
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we
understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their
food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will-he will
be sure to repent it.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought
to be.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be
overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Topic: Knowledge
Source: None
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Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
Topic: Last words
Source: None
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The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
Topic: Literature
Source: None
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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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He is richest who is content with the least.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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I know I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
Topic: Nature
Source: None
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
Topic: Philosophy
Source: None
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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