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.
SOCRATESDeath may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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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 unexamined life is not worth living.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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