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and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth."
Socrates (469 - 399 B.C.) proclaimed: "I sought to persuade every man among you that he must look to himself, and seek virtue and wisdom before he looks to his private interests, and look to the state before he looks to the interests of the state; and that this should be the order which he observes in all his actions." (The Apology)
If we try to understand what the wise man was telling us in his last hour namely that "The body and its desires bring hatred, revenge, jealousy and, as a consequence, wars and suffering" we find that it is as much valid today as it was two millennia before. The desire to overcome, to compete, to be more powerful, more rich, to have more possessions, is the struggle that brings great stress and unhappiness in our lives in the modern times.
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