I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
SOCRATESIt is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
More Socrates Quotes
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Are 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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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To be is to do.
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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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