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.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
More Socrates Quotes
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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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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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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?
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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