When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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 hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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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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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.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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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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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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