It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
SOCRATESI 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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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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 beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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 know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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To be is to do.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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