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?
SOCRATESGive me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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 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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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 misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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To be is to do.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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