To be is to do.
SOCRATESFrom the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
More Socrates Quotes
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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