Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
SOCRATESTo find yourself, think for yourself.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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