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.
SOCRATESDo not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
More Socrates Quotes
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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