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Moralia
Traced to Moralia.
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“Nothing is to be preferred before justice.”
Socrates
Crito
verified“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
Socrates
Phaedo
verified“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”
Socrates
Crito
verified“Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.”
Socrates
Moralia
verified“How many things I have no need of!”
Socrates
Lives of Eminent Philosophers
verified“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”
Socrates
Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Young India · 1921
verified“Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Statement at his trial, Young India · 1922
verified“There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Young India · 1920
verified“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. So, let us be alert — alert in a twofold sense: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning · 1984
verified“If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.”
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning · 1959
verified“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning · 1959
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