To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
SOCRATESThe hottest love has the coldest end.
More Socrates Quotes
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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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 beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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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.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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