Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
SOCRATESIt is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
More Socrates Quotes
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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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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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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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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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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