To move the world we must move ourselves.
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 you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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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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