Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
SOCRATESThe hottest love has the coldest end.
More Socrates Quotes
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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