Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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Now 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.
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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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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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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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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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To be is to do.
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