When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
SOCRATESTo fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
More Socrates Quotes
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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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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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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 hottest love has the coldest end.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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