Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
SOCRATESYour 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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