Through your rags I see your vanity.
SOCRATESLiving well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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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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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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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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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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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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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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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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