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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
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  • #3
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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  • #4
    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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  • #5
    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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  • #6
    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: philosophy
    2196 likes

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  • #7
    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder
    2019 likes

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  • #8
    Socrates
    “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship
    1596 likes

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  • #9
    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
    tags: marriage
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  • #10
    Socrates
    “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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  • #11
    Socrates
    “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.”
    ― Socrates
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  • #12
    Socrates
    “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
    ― Socrates
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  • #13
    Socrates
    “Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: change, self-determination, self-development
    693 likes

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  • #14
    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
    tags: inspirational, reading, wisdom
    581 likes

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  • #15
    Socrates
    “We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: character, rectitude
    434 likes

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  • #16
    Socrates
    “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
    ― Socrates
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  • #17
    Socrates
    “understanding a question is half an answer”
    ― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates
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  • #18
    Socrates
    “Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.”
    ― Socrates
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  • #19
    Socrates
    “Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: love
    190 likes

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  • #20
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength
    5974 likes

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  • #21
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: happiness
    4237 likes

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  • #22
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: integrity, morality
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  • #23
    Marcus Aurelius
    “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: attitude, distress, mind-over-body, pain, stoicism
    2622 likes

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  • #24
    Marcus Aurelius
    “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: carpe-diem, inspirational, life, seize-the-day
    2321 likes

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  • #25
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: conduct-of-life, injury, revenge
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  • #26
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: fate, love, people
    1863 likes

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  • #27
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: history, rome, soul, thoughts, wisdom
    2140 likes

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  • #28
    Marcus Aurelius
    “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: death, fear, inspirational
    2021 likes

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  • #29
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: equanimity, future, inspirational, reason, stoic, stoicism, worry
    1750 likes

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  • #30
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: attitude, inspirational, life
    1553 likes



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