Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
SOCRATESOne should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
More Socrates Quotes
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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 beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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