The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESTo be is to do.
More Socrates Quotes
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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.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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?
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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