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.
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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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