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.
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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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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.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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One 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.
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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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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 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 come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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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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