The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESGive me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
More Socrates Quotes
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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