Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
SOCRATESAs to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
More Socrates Quotes
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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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.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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