The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESBe as you wish to seem.
More Socrates Quotes
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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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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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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To be is to do.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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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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