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.
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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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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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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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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