My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
SOCRATESDo not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
More Socrates Quotes
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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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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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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 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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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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