The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESRemember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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