Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
SOCRATESBy far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
More Socrates Quotes
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Be 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.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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.
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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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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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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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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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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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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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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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