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.
SOCRATESIt is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
More Socrates Quotes
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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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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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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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 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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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To be is to do.
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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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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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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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