Now 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.
SOCRATESContentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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To be is to do.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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