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.
SOCRATESNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
More Socrates Quotes
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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