Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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