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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More Socrates Quotes
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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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 unexamined life is not worth living.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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