Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
SOCRATESI cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
More Socrates Quotes
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Now 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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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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