I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
SOCRATESI don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
SOCRATESBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
SOCRATESDeath may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SOCRATESThe easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
SOCRATESNo 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.
SOCRATESTo express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESGive me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
SOCRATESEverything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
SOCRATESTo fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
SOCRATESWhen you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
SOCRATESThere is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
SOCRATESThe highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
SOCRATESThe hottest love has the coldest end.
SOCRATESEducation is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
SOCRATESIf all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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