Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
SOCRATESIt 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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Be as you wish to seem.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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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 hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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To be is to do.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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