The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates · Socrates' words to the jury at his trial in 399 BC as reported by Plato, in Benjamin Jowett's standard English translation.
Socrates · Socrates' words to the jury at his trial in 399 BC as reported by Plato, in Benjamin Jowett's standard English translation.
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Attributed to Oscar Wilde · Recorded by Harold Mellor, a friend who travelled with Wilde in 1898 to 1900, and printed only in 1949 in the Marquess of Queensberry's Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas; Quote Investigator finds it plausible but resting on one man's memory half a century on.
Mahatma Gandhi · Written in his weekly Young India in 1920, in a passage on love as the force we see between parent and child and must learn to use toward all that lives.
Eleanor Roosevelt · From the chapter "Learning to Be Useful" in her last book, written at 76.
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