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?
SOCRATESIt is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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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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