We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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More Socrates Quotes
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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