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“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“I am a part of all that I have met.”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Socrates

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
― Socrates

“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
― Socrates

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
― Anonymous

“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
― Socrates

“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”
― Socrates

“Every action has its pleasures and its price.”
― Socrates

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates

“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.”
― Socrates

“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.”
― Socrates

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
― Socrates

“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.”
― Socrates

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”
― Socrates

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
― Socrates

“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.”
― Socrates

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
― Socrates

“If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.”
― Socrates

“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.”
― Socrates

“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
― Socrates

“Be as you wish to seem.”
― Socrates

“Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.”
― Socrates