Socrates

=Socrates=

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 * Quotes**

1. All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

2. Be as you wish to seem.

3. Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

4. Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

5. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

6. He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

7. I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

8. 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.

9. It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

10. Let him that would move the world first move himself.

11. The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. (Put that into any divine order you like)

12. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.

13. Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

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