Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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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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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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