The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I 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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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