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.
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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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