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.
SOCRATESUnderstanding a question is half an answer.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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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 better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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 great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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