The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
SOCRATESThe misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
More Socrates Quotes
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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