To be is to do.
SOCRATESThe children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
More Socrates Quotes
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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