Socrates Quotes

And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.

Socrates

• Truth
• Soul
• Justice
• Courage
• Nobility

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• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

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• I feel like a lot of directing is casting.

  

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• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

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• I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.

  

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• As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.

  

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• I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

  

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• The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

  

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• I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

  

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• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

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• I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

  

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• You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.

  

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• You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

  

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• The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.

  

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• And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.

  

  Socrates
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Justice