Understanding a question is half an answer.
SOCRATESWe cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
More Socrates Quotes
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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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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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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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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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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