We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
SOCRATESNobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
More Socrates Quotes
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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 greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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