The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
SOCRATESI decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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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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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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