To be is to do.
SOCRATESThe hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
More Socrates Quotes
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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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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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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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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