The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
SOCRATESI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
More Socrates Quotes
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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 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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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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