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“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

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

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

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
― Socrates

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

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

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

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
― 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

“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

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

“understanding a question is half an answer”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”
― Socrates

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

“Envy is the ulcer of the soul.”
― Socrates

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

“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”
― Socrates

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

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
― Socrates

“I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within. ”
― Socrates

“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”
― Socrates

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
― Socrates

“The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. ”
― Socrates

“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”
― Socrates

“Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

“Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.”
― Socrates

“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.”
― Socrates