The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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To be is to do.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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