Understanding a question is half an answer.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
More Socrates Quotes
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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To be is to do.
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