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.
SOCRATESLet him who would move the world first move himself.
More Socrates Quotes
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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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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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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