I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
SOCRATESMy plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
More Socrates Quotes
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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