One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
More Socrates Quotes
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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