The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
SOCRATESThe unexamined life is not worth living.
More Socrates Quotes
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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 greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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To be is to do.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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