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.
SOCRATESThou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
More Socrates Quotes
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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