As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
SOCRATESNo 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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 greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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