Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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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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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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