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.
SOCRATESIt is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
More Socrates Quotes
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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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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