In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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More Socrates Quotes
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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