Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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