Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
SOCRATESThe easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
More Socrates Quotes
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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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 know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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To be is to do.
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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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