As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
SOCRATESSometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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