When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
SOCRATESWhen you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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.
SOCRATESSometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
SOCRATESNo 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.
SOCRATESTo be is to do.
SOCRATESI know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
SOCRATESNow 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.
SOCRATESI cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
SOCRATESAre 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?
SOCRATESWealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
SOCRATESThe answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
SOCRATESIntelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
SOCRATESIt is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
SOCRATESThe easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
SOCRATESWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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