When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
SOCRATESWhen you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
More Socrates Quotes
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Be as you wish to seem.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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