I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
SOCRATESNow 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.
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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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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