The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
SOCRATESMy plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
More Socrates Quotes
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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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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