Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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More Socrates Quotes
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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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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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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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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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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