Socrates Quotes
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Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.
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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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In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.
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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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I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
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When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.
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My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
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Laws are not made for the good.
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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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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
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Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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To harm another is to harm oneself.
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An honest man is always a child.
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How many things are there which I do not want.
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Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge.
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The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
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The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.