Socrates Quotes on Morality
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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For who is there but you? Who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.