It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
SOCRATESThere is no solution; seek it lovingly.
More Socrates Quotes
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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