The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
SOCRATESLiving well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
More Socrates Quotes
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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