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.
SOCRATESThe hottest love has the coldest end.
More Socrates Quotes
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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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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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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