Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
SOCRATESWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
More Socrates Quotes
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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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 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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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