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.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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