Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
SOCRATESIf you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
More Socrates Quotes
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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To be is to do.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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