Socrates Quotes
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The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.
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Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.
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Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.
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Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.
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The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
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Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
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I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
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Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
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True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Pride divides the men, humility joins them.
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The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
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People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
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The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.
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Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.
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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.