The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
SOCRATESThe secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
More Socrates Quotes
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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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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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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