My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
SOCRATESThe 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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To be is to do.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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