The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESThrough your rags I see your vanity.
More Socrates Quotes
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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To be is to do.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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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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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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