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.
SOCRATESNobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
More Socrates Quotes
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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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.
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