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101 " The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles. "
― Socrates
102 " The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. "
103 " Those who are hardest to love need it the most. "
104 " Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers. "
105 " Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. "
106 " Esteemed friend, citizen of Athens, the greatest city in the world, so outstanding in both intelligence and power, aren't you ashamed to care so much to make all the money you can, and to advance your reputation and prestige--while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your soul you have no care or worry? "
107 " The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion. "
108 " To be is to do "
109 " I did not care for the things that most people care about– 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 you– each one of you, individually and in private– 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 excellent and as rational as possible. "
110 " To move the world we must move ourselves. "
111 " Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue. "
112 " I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others. "
113 " Through your rags I see your vanity. "
114 " There is no solution; seek it lovingly "
115 " It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one. "
116 " To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom. "
117 " God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us. "
118 " Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one. "
119 " Well, although I do not suppose that either of us know anything really beautiful & good, I am better off than he is- for he knows nothing & thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know. "
120 " To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul. "