Be as you wish to seem.
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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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To be is to do.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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