To move the world we must move ourselves.
SOCRATESBy all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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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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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is 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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