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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More Socrates Quotes
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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