I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
SOCRATESNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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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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To be is to do.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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