My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
SOCRATESEnvy is the ulcer of the soul.
More Socrates Quotes
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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 you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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