From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
SOCRATESI cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
More Socrates Quotes
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you 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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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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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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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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