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Socrates Quotes

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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
I did not care for the things that most people care abou? making money, having a comfortable home, high military or civil rank, and all the other activities, political appointments, secret societies, party organizations, which go on in our city . . . I set myself to do yo? each one of you, individually and in privat? what I hold to be the greatest possible service. I tried to persuade each one of you to concern himself less with what he has than with what he is, so as to render himself as... Socrates
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. Socrates
Socrates quote: "Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak..."
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people. Socrates
Socrates quote: "Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see..."
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. Socrates
Socrates quote: "Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth..."
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. Socrates
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Socrates

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