We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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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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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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