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.
SOCRATESI 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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To be is to do.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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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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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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