Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESIt is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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A 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.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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 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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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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