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.
SOCRATESUnderstanding a question is half an answer.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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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 great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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