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.
SOCRATESNo 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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