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.
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
More Socrates Quotes
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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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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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your 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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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