There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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More Socrates Quotes
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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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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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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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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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