Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SOCRATESThe hottest love has the coldest end.
More Socrates Quotes
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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