Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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