The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
SOCRATESBe as you wish to seem.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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 be is to do.
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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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