We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
SOCRATESThose who are hardest to love need it the most.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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