Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
SOCRATESThou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
More Socrates Quotes
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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