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.
SOCRATESThe great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
More Socrates Quotes
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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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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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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To be is to do.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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 beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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