Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
SOCRATESI cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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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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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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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 hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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