When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
SOCRATESThe only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
More Socrates Quotes
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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 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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