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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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