Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SOCRATESThe easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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To be is to do.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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