To move the world we must move ourselves.
SOCRATESA system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
More Socrates Quotes
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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 misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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