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.
SOCRATESBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
More Socrates Quotes
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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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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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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