The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
SOCRATESNobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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