The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
SOCRATESThe misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
More Socrates Quotes
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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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 greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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