As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
SOCRATESNobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
More Socrates Quotes
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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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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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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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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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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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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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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 only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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To be is to do.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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