In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
SOCRATESFrom the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
More Socrates Quotes
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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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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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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