The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
SOCRATESLiving well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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