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.
SOCRATESA system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
More Socrates Quotes
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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