Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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