The hottest love has the coldest end.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
More Socrates Quotes
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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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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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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