Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
SOCRATESBy all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
More Socrates Quotes
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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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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To be is to do.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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