The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
SOCRATESAre 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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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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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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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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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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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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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