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.
SOCRATESThe greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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To be is to do.
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We 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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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