I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
SOCRATESLet him who would move the world first move himself.
More Socrates Quotes
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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