The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESThe great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESLife contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
SOCRATESI cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
SOCRATESThe highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
SOCRATESThose who are hardest to love need it the most.
SOCRATESMankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
SOCRATESThe children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
SOCRATESTo find yourself, think for yourself.
SOCRATESDeath may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SOCRATESNo 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.
SOCRATESEverything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
SOCRATESIt is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
SOCRATESIs it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
SOCRATESWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
SOCRATESAn unconsidered life is not one worth living.
SOCRATESNow the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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