No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
SOCRATESI 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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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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