The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
SOCRATESIf all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
More Socrates Quotes
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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The 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.
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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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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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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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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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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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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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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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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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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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