Understanding a question is half an answer.
SOCRATESUnderstanding a question is half an answer.
SOCRATESAn unconsidered life is not one worth living.
SOCRATESStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
SOCRATESYour 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.
SOCRATESThe secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
SOCRATESThe misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
SOCRATESDeath may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SOCRATESRemember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
SOCRATESWhen you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
SOCRATESA man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
SOCRATESGive me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
SOCRATESDo not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
SOCRATESEnvy is the ulcer of the soul.
SOCRATESWe cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
SOCRATESThe answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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