Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
SOCRATESUnderstanding a question is half an answer.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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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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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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To be is to do.
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