When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
SOCRATESThe easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
More Socrates Quotes
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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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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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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