Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
SOCRATESTo be is to do.
More Socrates Quotes
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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To be is to do.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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