The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
SOCRATESWisdom begins in wonder.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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