The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
SOCRATESLiving well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
More Socrates Quotes
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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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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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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