Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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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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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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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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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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