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.
SOCRATESGive me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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To be is to do.
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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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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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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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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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