Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SOCRATESTo be is to do.
More Socrates Quotes
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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