"No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government."

Socrates on government
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"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

Socrates on friends and friendship
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"Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."

Socrates on food and eating
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"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

Socrates on feminism
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"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."

Socrates on life   

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

Socrates on life   

"In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent."

Socrates on life
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"Naturam rerum cognoscere primum. "First know the nature of things" or "Get your facts straight first"."

Socrates on
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"Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth"

Socrates on truth
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"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. "

Socrates on uncategorised   

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

Socrates on wisdom
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"Know thyself."

Socrates on knowledge
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"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us."

Socrates on prayer
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"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."

Socrates on potential   

"See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all."

Socrates on nature   

"By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher."

Socrates on marriage
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"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."

Socrates on listening
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"Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?"

Socrates on famous last words
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"The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods."

Socrates on desire
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"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

Socrates on death
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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."

Socrates on death
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"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?"

Socrates on death
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"If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded."

Socrates on debate   

"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."

Socrates on desire
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"Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe."

Horace on freedom
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"Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself."

Horace on freedom   

"He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful."

Horace on function
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"Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him."

Horace on aid and assistance
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"Begin, be bold and venture to be wise."

Horace on goals
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"Gold will be slave or master."

Horace on gold   

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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."

Horace on greatness   

"A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness."

Horace on humor   

"Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much."

Horace on fortune
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"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment."

Horace on fools and foolishness
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

Lincoln, Abraham on character
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

James, William on character   

"As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it."

Horace on adversity
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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."

Horace on adversity
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"A good scare is worth more than good advice."

Horace on advice
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"He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others."

Horace on deception
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