Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESEverything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
More Socrates Quotes
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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