Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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