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.
SOCRATESThe 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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