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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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 easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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