Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
SOCRATESI know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
More Socrates Quotes
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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