My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
SOCRATESMy 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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To be is to do.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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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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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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