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.
SOCRATESThe hottest love has the coldest end.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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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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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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To be is to do.
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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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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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