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.
SOCRATESI know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
More Socrates Quotes
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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