Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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