Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
SOCRATESThe beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
More Socrates Quotes
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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The 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.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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