Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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