The unexamined life is not worth living.
SOCRATESTo fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
More Socrates Quotes
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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.
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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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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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