To be is to do.
SOCRATESNow 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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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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