Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESDeath may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
SOCRATESNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
SOCRATESThe easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
SOCRATESThere is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
SOCRATESWe cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
SOCRATESIt is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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.
SOCRATESIt 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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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
SOCRATESThe unexamined life is not worth living.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
SOCRATESWhen you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
SOCRATESOne should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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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.
SOCRATESA 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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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.
SOCRATESOne 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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