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.
SOCRATESIt is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
More Socrates Quotes
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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