An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
More Socrates Quotes
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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