To find yourself, think for yourself.
SOCRATESWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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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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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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