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.
SOCRATESWhen the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
More Socrates Quotes
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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A 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.
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