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.
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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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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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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