If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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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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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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