Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
SOCRATESNow the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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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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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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No 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.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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