An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
SOCRATESHe 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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