Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SOCRATESFrom the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
More Socrates Quotes
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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 easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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