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.
SOCRATESIf you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
More Socrates Quotes
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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 move the world we must move ourselves.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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 greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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