I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
SOCRATESIt 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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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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