Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
SOCRATESThrough your rags I see your vanity.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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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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To be is to do.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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