Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
SOCRATESI do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
More Socrates Quotes
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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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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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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To be is to do.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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.
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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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