Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
SOCRATESThe greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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A 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.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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 not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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