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.
SOCRATESAre you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
More Socrates Quotes
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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