The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
SOCRATESWealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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To be is to do.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The 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.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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