There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
SOCRATESHe who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
More Socrates Quotes
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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