Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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 don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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