Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
More Socrates Quotes
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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 hottest love has the coldest end.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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