Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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