I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
SOCRATESBe as you wish to seem.
More Socrates Quotes
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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