Socrates Quotes
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
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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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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
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We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.
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No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... It is a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.
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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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It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
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Contentment is natural wealth.
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Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
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In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
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Laws are not made for the good.
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The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
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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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To harm another is to harm oneself.
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Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
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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 secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.