Understanding a question is half an answer.
SOCRATESThe only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
More Socrates Quotes
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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 really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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