It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
SOCRATESBy far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
More Socrates Quotes
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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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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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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