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?
SOCRATESDo not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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