Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
SOCRATESTo be is to do.
More Socrates Quotes
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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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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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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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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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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