The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
SOCRATESThrough your rags I see your vanity.
More Socrates Quotes
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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