“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
― Socrates
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“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”
― Socrates
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“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
― Socrates
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“And in knowing that you know nothing makes you the smartest of all.”
― Socrates
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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.”
― Socrates
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Socrates
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“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
― Socrates
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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates
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“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates
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“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
― Socrates
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“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
― Socrates
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“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”
― Socrates
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“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates
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“The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.”
― Socrates
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“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Socrates
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“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates
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“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.”
― Socrates
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“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
― Socrates
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“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
― Socrates
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“An unconsidered life is not one worth living.”
― Socrates
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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.”
― Socrates
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“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”
― Socrates
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“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”
― Socrates
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