My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
SOCRATESContentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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To be is to do.
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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 better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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