Be as you wish to seem.
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More Socrates Quotes
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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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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 only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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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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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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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