"Be as you wish to seem." — Socrates
"Be as you wish to seem."
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331 Quotes by Socrates
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Contentment is natural wealth.
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the…
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the…
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in…
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
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Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
— Hannah Arendt
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
— Honore de Balzac
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When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows…
— Enid Bagnold
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
— Jane Addams
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
— Edmund Burke
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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
— Lord Byron
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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you…
— Lewis Carroll
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Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're…
— Benjamin Carson
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
— Fidel Castro
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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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