If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
SOCRATESIt is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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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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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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