Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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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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To be is to do.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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