I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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To be is to do.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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