Understanding a question is half an answer.
SOCRATESI 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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To be is to do.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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