We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
More Socrates Quotes
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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 unexamined life is not worth living.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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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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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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