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.
SOCRATESThe answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
More Socrates Quotes
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To be is to do.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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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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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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