He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
SOCRATESLife contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
More Socrates Quotes
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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