Be as you wish to seem.
SOCRATESThe answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
More Socrates Quotes
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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To be is to do.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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