The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
SOCRATESLiving well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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