Socrates Quotes About Character
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.
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The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.
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The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.
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It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.
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