The unexamined life is not worth living.
SOCRATESDo not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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 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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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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