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.
SOCRATESI cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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