He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
SOCRATESBe 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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