The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESDeath may be the greatest of all human blessings.
More Socrates Quotes
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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 man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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