The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
SOCRATESUnderstanding a question is half an answer.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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 easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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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?
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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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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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