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.
SOCRATESUnderstanding a question is half an answer.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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 great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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