Be as you wish to seem.
SOCRATESI cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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To be is to do.
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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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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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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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