Socrates Quotes

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

Socrates

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• Free
• Rule
• Pleasures

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• I don't spend a lot of money on clothes, which is weird because I am a fashion model, but when it comes to the new collections coming out, I am just praying designers send it to me for free.

  

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• There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

  

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• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

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• The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

  

  L. Neil Smith
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• Free love sounds great.

  

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• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

  

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• We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

  

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• A true man hates no one.

  

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• The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

  

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• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

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• I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!

  

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• Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.

  

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• All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.

  

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• When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!

  

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• Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

  

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• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

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• When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don't think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

  

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• All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
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• Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

  

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• Without unleashing the power of life-destroying missiles or forcing obedience to a particular law, rainbows dissolve preoccupation with the predictably ordinary and encourage belief in the extra-ordinary. Such belief, such inspiration, provides much more than passive hopefulness.

  

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• Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.

  

  Neko Case
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• How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

  

  Socrates
  • Man
  • Free
  • Rule