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.
SOCRATESWe cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
More Socrates Quotes
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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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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