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 hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
More Socrates Quotes
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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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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