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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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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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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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 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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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To be is to do.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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