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.
SOCRATESAs to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
More Socrates Quotes
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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