Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
SOCRATESYour 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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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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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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