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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
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Authors & Writing
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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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Beauty
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
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Change
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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.
-Socrates
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Contentment
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He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
-Socrates
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
-Socrates
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Control
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
-Socrates
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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 know 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, from Plato's Apology
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The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
-Socrates
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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
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Deception/Lying
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
-Socrates
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Desires
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
-Socrates
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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
-Socrates
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Education
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Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men.
-Socrates
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An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all
-Socrates
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Enjoyment
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Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.
-Socrates
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Envy / Jealousy
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
-Socrates
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Evil
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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.
-Socrates
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
-Socrates
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Fame
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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
-Socrates
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Food
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Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
-Socrates
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Friends
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
-Socrates
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Glory
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The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
-Socrates
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Government
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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
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Greed
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
-Socrates
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Books by and about Socrates