Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
SOCRATESTo be is to do.
More Socrates Quotes
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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To be is to do.
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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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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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