One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
SOCRATESThose who are hardest to love need it the most.
More Socrates Quotes
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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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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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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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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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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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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