Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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More Socrates Quotes
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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