Be as you wish to seem.
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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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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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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 easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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