Understanding a question is half an answer.
SOCRATESTo be is to do.
More Socrates Quotes
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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