When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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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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To be is to do.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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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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