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.
SOCRATESThe greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
More Socrates Quotes
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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