Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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.
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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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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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