The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
SOCRATESAre 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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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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To be is to do.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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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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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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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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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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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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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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