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.
SOCRATESI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
More Socrates Quotes
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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