Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SOCRATESLet him who would move the world first move himself.
More Socrates Quotes
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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