There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
SOCRATESWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
More Socrates Quotes
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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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.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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