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.
SOCRATESIf you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
More Socrates Quotes
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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To be is to do.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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