Understanding a question is half an answer.
SOCRATESHe who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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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 greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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