Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
SOCRATESMankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
More Socrates Quotes
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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