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Happiness
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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
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Call no man unhappy until he is married.
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Hate
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Humanity
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I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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Humor
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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Insults
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Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
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Intelligence
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Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure
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Justice
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Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
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Knowledge
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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.
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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
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Last Words
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Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
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Leadership
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Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
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Life
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Listening
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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.
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Love
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.
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Marriage
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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.
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Morals
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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Nature
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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
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Philosophy
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you
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Poetry
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Books by and about Socrates