The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESThrough your rags I see your vanity.
More Socrates Quotes
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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To be is to do.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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