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Socrates Quote - In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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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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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 good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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No 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.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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