Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
SOCRATESNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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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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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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