My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
SOCRATESThe 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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