Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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 greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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