Be as you wish to seem.
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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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