Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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More Socrates Quotes
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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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 hottest love has the coldest end.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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