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 great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
More Socrates Quotes
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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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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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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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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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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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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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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