The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
SOCRATESTo be is to do.
More Socrates Quotes
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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