Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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 greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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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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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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