Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
SOCRATESOne who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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