To be is to do.
SOCRATESBe slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
More Socrates Quotes
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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