It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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More Socrates Quotes
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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