Be as you wish to seem.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
More Socrates Quotes
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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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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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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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.
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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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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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