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.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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