Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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