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.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
More Socrates Quotes
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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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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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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To be is to do.
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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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