Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
SOCRATESBe as you wish to seem.
More Socrates Quotes
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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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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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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