To be is to do.
SOCRATESTo express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
More Socrates Quotes
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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