To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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