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#1

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

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#2

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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#3

“Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”
― Seneca

tags: inspirational, life

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#4

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#5

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

tags: inspirational, running

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#6

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#7

“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

tags: employment, life, purpose-of-life, time, usefulness, waste

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#8

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
― Seneca

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#9

“He who is brave is free”
― Seneca

tags: bravery, courage, freedom, gallantry

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#10

“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

tags: stress, travel

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#11

“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
― seneca, Peace of Mind: De Tranquillitate Animi

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#12

“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”
― Seneca

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#13

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
― Seneca

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#14

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

tags: knowledge, philosophy

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#15

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

tags: philosophy

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#16

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder

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#17

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

tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship

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#18

“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

tags: marriage

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#19

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

tags: avarice, contentment, gluttony, greed

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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.”
― Socrates

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#21

“Know thyself.”
― Socrates

tags: inspirational

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#22

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

tags: contentment, philosophy

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#23

“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

tags: inspirational, reading, wisdom

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#24

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

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#25

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

[As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment]”
― Socrates

tags: cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanism, world-citizenship

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#26

“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

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#27

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

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#28

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

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#29

“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

tags: honor, honour

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#30

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: self-awareness, self-knowledge

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