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.
SOCRATESBe as you wish to seem.
More Socrates Quotes
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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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