The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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 unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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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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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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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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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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