One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
SOCRATESA system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
More Socrates Quotes
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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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.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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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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