If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
SOCRATESIt is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
More Socrates Quotes
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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 cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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