It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
SOCRATESLet him who would move the world first move himself.
More Socrates Quotes
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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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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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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