Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
SOCRATESThe 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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Be as you wish to seem.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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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.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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