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.
SOCRATESI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
More Socrates Quotes
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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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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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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.
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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 solution; seek it lovingly.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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To be is to do.
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