Through your rags I see your vanity.
SOCRATESLife contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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