Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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