I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
SOCRATESI 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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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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