The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
More Socrates Quotes
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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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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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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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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