When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
SOCRATESUnderstanding a question is half an answer.
More Socrates Quotes
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To be is to do.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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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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