Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
SOCRATESWealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
More Socrates Quotes
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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 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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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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