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.
SOCRATESBe 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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To be is to do.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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